The National Police Service has been urged to hire sign language interpreters or train police in sign language for the benefit of deaf people.
People with disabilities complain of the humiliation the deaf experience when they report crimes at police stations.
The chairman of the Association of the Disabled Persons of Kenya in Embu county, Peter Kathambara, said the deaf failed to report either defilement or rape for fear of stigmatisation.
Kathambara said the deaf feel humiliated by officers who at times make fun of them in police stations because they not know sign language.
He said some normal people take advantage of the deaf by raping and defiling them because they know that nothing will happen to them.
The APDK official was speaking at Embu Level Five Teaching and Referral Hospital during the presentation of 31 assistive devices to people with disabilities.
Embu Health Executive Jamleck Muturi called for utmost respect and sensitivity when treating people with disabilities so that they feel recognised in the society and contribute to the country's development.
Dr Muturi urged the hospital to be bias and award tenders to persons with disabilities. It should meet the 30 per cent thresh-hold required of public institutions.
He said the county government would position nurses trained in sign language in every section of the referral hospital to ease the treatment of the deaf.
The devices are a donation from China.
